Senator Durbin said he was banking on $285 million for Great Lakes clean-up and along came sequester spending cuts “to devastate the Great Lakes restoration initiative, to cut 80 percent of the funds, to leave some $60 million for all of the Great Lakes, money that will be spent to restore fisheries, to try to deal with pollution and sewage problems.”

Senator Durbin said even if the House Interior Committee negotiated back up to half, $140 million, it still wouldn’t be enough to adequately protect Lake Michigan as he urged environmentally aware constituents to let representatives know not to short the Great Lakes on clean-up funds.

Henry Henderson heads NRDC in the Midwest which he says needs the Great Lakes dollars to keep sewage out of Lake Michigan.

“There would be a rebuilding of failed sewer systems, where some of them are 150 years old and are breaking and leaking,” said Henderson.

Already in prison for the murder of his third wife, former Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to hire a hitman to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel threw cold water on the Chicago Cubs’ request to begin working on Wrigley Field renovations around the clock, after cold winter weather significantly delayed construction of new bleachers.

After “48 Hours” uncovered evidence that casts doubt on the verdict that sent a teacher to prison for the death of a 16-month-old boy, the Lake County Coroner was calling for authorities to reopen the case.

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